The latest PC Gamer magazine brings a review of a welcome new phenomenon, regional British comedy videogames. Or, at least, one videogame — the first of what will hopefully become a sub-genre. Thank Goodness You’re Here (August 2024) is set in Yorkshire, toon style.

“… here to educate the entire world about our nation’s obsession with sausages and bare bottoms” (Rock, Paper, Shotgun review).

Surreal slapstick comedy, Carry On style double-entendres and innuendo, dialect and funny voices, eccentric characters… amid which you play a travelling salesman and odd-job man in the town of Barnsworth. Very odd jobs, indeed. PC Gamer‘s review gives the £16 game a stellar 90% score. Hopefully there will soon be a Stoke-on-Trent version.

And while we’re waiting for that, “Spitfire cockpit flight simulator launched at Stoke-on-Trent gallery”.